tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post7169834586640427988..comments2023-09-24T07:53:50.826-05:00Comments on The Atheist Experience™: Dinesh D'Souza, Christianity's silliest intellectual poseurUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-40556464078418312532009-11-19T16:45:03.025-06:002009-11-19T16:45:03.025-06:00Regarding LTTE, many do not know that the the chie...Regarding LTTE, many do not know that the the chief Prabhakaran, and most of his deputies were converted christians and not hindus. But their struggle is more for Tamil land and not religion based. Buddhists are generally peaceful, but in srilanka they have oppresses the tamils for so long that LTTE was their own creation. Even during the war, the sinhalese buddhists were ruthless in killing hapless tamilians.GVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04498121702575930675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-82438362820624655392009-11-19T16:40:53.791-06:002009-11-19T16:40:53.791-06:00Islam is passing through the same phase Christiani...Islam is passing through the same phase Christianity passed during crusades. All these suicide bombers are brainwashed poor Madrasa educated from Pakistan and funded by Saudi Arabia and even America during Cold war. <br /><br />As a hindu, i am sad to see extremism creeping into our society mainly because of islamic terrorism in india and free conversions sponsored by christian missionaries in the name of service with funds from Pat Robertson, Jeremy Falwell type evangelists.<br /><br />Hinduism considers even athiesm as part of the religion and it is by and large peaceful like Buddhism.GVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04498121702575930675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-82548270430494745292009-11-19T11:58:14.837-06:002009-11-19T11:58:14.837-06:00They aren't suicide bombers but D'Souza mi...They aren't suicide bombers but D'Souza might want to ask the Hindu people of Sri Lanka about the benevolence of Buddhism.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802892952926113605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-16821393219530800992009-11-19T09:45:03.529-06:002009-11-19T09:45:03.529-06:00Tibet even with it's claim of pacifism was lar...Tibet even with it's claim of pacifism was largely because they had the slave classes to do the dirty work for them.Inghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13024689390434414829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-70270185795010440042009-11-18T18:36:15.951-06:002009-11-18T18:36:15.951-06:00Ah! Martin beat me to it. I was thinking, with t...Ah! Martin beat me to it. I was thinking, with the mention of Buddhist suicide bombers, Kamikazee comes to mind. Heck I always think buddhist get off pretty easy. From Japan to China, to just a number of asian nations of kingdoms, buddhism was a dominant religion that didn't seem to be all peaceful. Just as warlike and violent as Christians and Muslims, it seems.The Jaded Skeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11648900534897779806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-40090908252734644662009-11-18T17:21:03.096-06:002009-11-18T17:21:03.096-06:00"And the Shoguns of medieval Japan were devou..."And the Shoguns of medieval Japan were devout Buddhists and brutal warlords." <br /><br />I have to point out the spread of Buddhism by the elite seemed to have the goal of making everyone else devout Buddhist pacifists. Ie, now that I've conquered all of you, why not bring up this religion that will prevent your descendants from taking it back.Inghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13024689390434414829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-15585197967384671852009-11-18T16:41:35.715-06:002009-11-18T16:41:35.715-06:00It takes a bloody idiot to say that faith had noth...It takes a bloody idiot to say that faith had nothing to do with 9/11. Ridiculous and utterly dishonest. What D'Souza refuses to see, it is that pretty much all religions put faith over moral, thinks that belief encompass moral and makes moral subservient to the belief. Therefore religion can potentially (and it often does) short-circuits morality to pursue evil deeds. Hell, as some posters here pointed out, even Buddhist have their fanatics!Guillaumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12376749604845793465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-79175987565038740872009-11-18T15:37:09.467-06:002009-11-18T15:37:09.467-06:00Actually, Ing, Wikipedia tells me that "Aum S...Actually, Ing, Wikipedia tells me that "Aum Shinrikyo/Aleph is a composite belief system that incorporates Asahara's idiosyncratic interpretations of Yoga with facets of Buddhism and Christianity, and even the writings of Nostradamus."<br /><br />So it looks like here we have <i>both</i> the Buddhist and Christian version of al Qaeda D'Souza is looking for, all rolled into one!Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17933545393470431585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-85214873575560905152009-11-18T13:43:23.389-06:002009-11-18T13:43:23.389-06:00I was going to point out the Vietnam suicide prote...I was going to point out the Vietnam suicide protester myself, but you're is a much more militant. <br /><br />Oh also the Tokyo subway gassing in which a Buddhist sect unleashed nerve agent on civilians. For shits and giggles I guess.Inghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13024689390434414829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-16134276277007744372009-11-18T12:56:13.310-06:002009-11-18T12:56:13.310-06:00I also wanted to point out the kamikaze pilots wer...I also wanted to point out the kamikaze pilots were acting on Buddhist beliefs. And the Shoguns of medieval Japan were devout Buddhists and brutal warlords.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11348787290655451496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-35691670203213542642009-11-18T11:51:12.247-06:002009-11-18T11:51:12.247-06:00Strongernow, did you know that you can link direct...Strongernow, did you know that you can link directly to the 1 hour, 9 min point of a YouTube video?<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hnqo4_X7PE#t=4140Curt Cameronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08048312089881459521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-73327398454150157862009-11-18T10:42:08.251-06:002009-11-18T10:42:08.251-06:00He brings teh stoopid! 1 hr 9 min. to 1 hr 13 min....He brings teh stoopid! 1 hr 9 min. to 1 hr 13 min. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hnqo4_X7PE&feature=player_embedded#TheJaytheisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05113302693328504558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-61111734516987944462009-11-18T10:25:30.542-06:002009-11-18T10:25:30.542-06:00There has been buddhist suicidebombers. During the...There has been buddhist suicidebombers. During the second world war buddhist monks persuaded young japanese men to volunteer for kamikazemissions.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02841098013768120962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-46912818408959605492009-11-18T07:30:44.084-06:002009-11-18T07:30:44.084-06:00I guess we should ignore people like Scott Roeder ...I guess we should ignore people like Scott Roeder who killed Dr. George Tiller in the name of Jesus Christ?BeamStalkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772110446629492132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-7434007845752670732009-11-18T05:45:08.056-06:002009-11-18T05:45:08.056-06:00I don't know if you can say he's the silli...I don't know if you can say he's the silliest. After all, this is something which virtually every theistic apologist brings up at some point in debates etc.<br /><br />Just once, I would love Hitch, or Harris, or whoever is on the other side of the debate to say something along the lines of:<br /><br />"I'm perfectly willing to consider the argument that atheism causes mass murder. Could you put forwards your evidence for a direct link between lack of belief in a theistic god and all this violence?"<br /><br />I would just love to see a theistic apologist attempt to show that disbelief in god alone leads to genocide. Each time they go through the list of people (both atheistic and theistic) who have commited these crimes in the name of atheism, and they give a reason of any sort, Hitch (it would have to be Hitch, he doesn't care about interrupting!) could say: "But that's not atheism, that's an actual <i>belief</i>. Atheism is the lack of a belief".<br /><br />Maybe eventually it would be drilled into the skulls of some of these people.Afterthought_btwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17758975616219512727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-80020960963033673372009-11-18T04:20:07.621-06:002009-11-18T04:20:07.621-06:00'the Christian bin Laden, the Christian equiva...'the Christian bin Laden, the Christian equivalent of al-Qaeda or Hezbollah, or the Christian "nation of martyrs" patterned along the lines of post-Khomeini Iran'<br /><br />If you were to ask a Muslim in Iraq (or Iran or Afghanistan) to answer to that, they might say: George W Bush, the US Army and the United States respectively.<br /><br />As Obi Wan said: "many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view".Pinkydeadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14677002754220215441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-45280750258159994652009-11-17T23:36:22.306-06:002009-11-17T23:36:22.306-06:00He's also just wrong. Remember Ann Coulter say...He's also just wrong. Remember Ann Coulter saying that the US should invade Islamic countries, kill the leaders and convert them to Christianity? <br /><br />Or has D'Souza paid any attention to Irish politics in the last 100 years?<br /><br />Moreover, D'Souza misses an additional point. Christianity has become less violent over the last two hundred years, in a large part due to the fact that it has become more secularized, more rational, and has less temporal power. But from the Crusades to about 1700 or so is non-stop religious warfare conducted by Christians. <br /><br />Trying to see what belief system has the most casualties connected to it is really dumb. It is particularly dumb because if we try to do this Christianity isn't going to look nearly as good as D'Souza wants it to as long as you take a view that isn't extremely limited.Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00637936588223855248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33241741.post-76837389592072210532009-11-17T21:54:16.470-06:002009-11-17T21:54:16.470-06:00Yeah Dinesh is a special special case.
Did you s...Yeah Dinesh is a special special case. <br /><br />Did you see his 4 on 3 debate where he makes this case. <br /><br />There is no evidence for God or Heaven, therefore the sensible thing is to assume they are Real. Because only a stupid person (atheist) would consider a lack of evidence as a negative and a reason not to believe. <br /><br />And twice (once after being corrected) asserted that Atheists state they KNOW there is no god/Supernatural. So they are the stupid ones for claiming divine certainty.BathTubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198295395639562763noreply@blogger.com